it is not sufficient, it comes far short, no tongue can tell, no heart conceive it.  ’Tis an epitome of hell, an extract, a quintessence, a compound, a mixture of all feral maladies, tyrannical tortures, plagues, and perplexities.  There is no sickness almost but physic provideth a remedy for it; to every sore chirurgery will provide a slave; friendship helps poverty; hope of liberty easeth imprisonment; suit and favour revoke banishment; authority and time wear away reproach:  but what physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favour, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience?  A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul:  who can put to silence the voice of desperation?  All that is single in other melancholy, Horribile, dirum, pestilens, atrox, ferum, concur in this, it is more than melancholy in the highest degree; a burning fever of the soul; so mad, saith [6737]Jacchinus, by this misery; fear, sorrow, and despair, he puts for ordinary symptoms of melancholy.  They are in great pain and horror of mind, distraction of soul, restless, full of continual fears, cares, torments, anxieties, they can neither eat, drink, nor sleep for them, take no rest,

[6738] “Perpetua impietas, nec mensae tempore cessat,
        Exagitat vesana quies, somnique furentes.”

       “Neither at bed, nor yet at board,
        Will any rest despair afford.”

Fear takes away their content, and dries the blood, wasteth the marrow, alters their countenance, “even in their greatest delights, singing, dancing, dalliance, they are still” (saith [6739]Lemnius) “tortured in their souls.”  It consumes them to nought, “I am like a pelican in the wilderness (saith David of himself, temporally afflicted), an owl, because of thine indignation,” Psalm cii. 8, 10, and Psalm lv. 4.  “My heart trembleth within me, and the terrors of death have come upon me; fear and trembling are come upon me, &c. at death’s door,” Psalm cvii. 18.  “Their soul abhors all manner of meats.”  Their [6740]sleep is (if it be any) unquiet, subject to fearful dreams and terrors.  Peter in his bonds slept secure, for he knew God protected him; and Tully makes it an argument of Roscius Amerinus’ innocency, that he killed not his father, because he so securely slept.  Those martyrs in the primitive church were most [6741]cheerful and merry in the midst of their persecutions; but it is far otherwise with these men, tossed in a sea, and that continually without rest or intermission, they can think of nought that is pleasant, [6742]"their conscience will not let them be quiet,” in perpetual fear, anxiety, if they be not yet apprehended, they are in doubt still they shall be ready to betray themselves, as Cain did, he thinks every man will kill him; “and roar for the grief of heart,” Psalm xxxviii. 8, as David did; as Job did, xx. 3, 21, 22, &c., “Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that have heavy hearts? which long for death,